Sutter-Yuba County Biographies


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ROBERT HILL
 
            A prominent sheepman well deserving of the place he enjoys in the 
history of agriculture in Northern California, Robert Hill, who lives about 
three miles south of Hammonton, exerts an enviable influence in favor of 
progress.  He was born in Nevada City, Cal., on September 5, 1883, the son of 
Robert and Allie (Sax) Hill, the former a native of New York, and the latter of 
Nevada County, Cal., having first seen the light at the old Backbone Place.  
Grandfather Charles Sax was a very early pioneer; and he was proprietor of the 
�Backbone House,� a stopping-off place for miners and teamsters.  The elder 
Robert Hill came out to California in 1850; he prospected and mined at Nevada 
City, and there he made his home.  He later teamed, for years; and having 
rounded out a busy and very useful career, he died in 1902.  Mrs. Hill is still 
living, the center of a circle of devoted friends.  Robert Hill, our subject, 
went to the Nevada City Grammar School, but when sixteen years of age he left 
home, and began to work for wages.  He has been in Yuba County most of his time 
and has leased some 200 acres of the old Antelope Springs ranch (a name derived 
from the habit of wild animals seeking water there, where other springs were few 
and far between, or dry), better known as Bowman�s Ranch.  Mr. Hill has been 
engaged in sheep-raising, although he has only 225 head.  He is a Republican, 
but that need not imply any narrow partisanship when it comes to his endorsing 
the best men and the best measures for local interests.
            Mr. Hill was married on March 18, 1907, to Miss Amy S. Wellman, one 
of the well-known triplets referred to in the interesting story of the parents, 
Miles and Ency Wellman, appearing elsewhere in this work; and she was born and 
reared on the Wellman ranch, six miles to the south of Hammonton.  Mr. Hill is a 
member of the Marysville District Wool Growers� Association and the State Wool 
Growers� Association, and also the Elizabeth-Lone Tree Farm Center.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 1190-1191